Bethan Jenkins AM speech in the Welsh Assembly

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Hi Micha,

It seems there exists a law-case where Welsh autorities have been
cought with their legal pants down, trying to cover-up misconduct and
abuse of power in the case of Linda Lewis, to such an extend that the
covert international powergrid structure could be laid bare for anyone
to inspect. Linda Lewis had a sick daughter with whom she flew from the
UK to a Florida hospital to get a second opinion. It ended with Linda
Lewis being accused by the state of murdering her own daughter :

Kevin Edwards of the "Justice 4 Linda Lewis Campaign."
Saturday, 5 December 2015
Not A Welsh Parliament But A Cesspit Of Labour Party Misrule And Corruption.
http://cllrkevinedwards.blogspot.nl/2015/12/not-welsh-parliament-but-cesspit-of.html

  "Justice 4 Linda Lewis Update December 5th 2015
   by Freedom Talk Radio , Published on Dec 6, 2015
   

     "Lies and Corruption In Social Services Police and
      the Welsh Government"
      Tonight @ 1900 Kevin Edwards of the "Justice 4 Linda Lewis Campaign
      " with a fascinating update of events. Welsh Assembly Member Bethan
      Jenkins AM sabotaged at the 11th hours from speaking out on Linda's
      behalf in the Welsh Government by Assembly Members of the corrupt
      Labour Party in collusion with the Presiding Officer Rosemary
      Butler AM. South Wales Police have a change of heart and are
      politely told where to get off. Official complaint made about PC
      Karl Goulding and a full investigation being launched by South
      Wales Police ( expect another cover up ) into the non existent and
      fabricated arrest of Linda Lewis on the 11th of December 1998 and
      much more.
      http://cllrkevinedwards.blogspot.co.uk/ "

   Above is a youtube recording of a radio interview that I did on
   Saturday the 5th of December 2015 live on Freedom Talk Radio.
   
   At the end of this article is a transcript of a speech that was to be
   given by Bethan Jenkins AM in the Welsh Assembly on the 23rd of
   September 2015 which was cynically sabotaged at the 11th hour.
   
    Unfortunately certain Welsh Assembly members alleged to be First
   Minister Carwyn Jones.
   
   Labour Member for Aberavon David Rees AM, Deputy Minister for Social
   Services and Assembly Member for Neath Gwenda Thomas along with the
   almost unknown Mike Hedges AM in collusion with the Presiding Officer
   (Speaker) Rosemary Butler AM (All of them Labour) fraudulently
   claimed that there was still an injunction on this case and managed to
   stop Bethan Jenkins AM from speaking in the pleniary debate and
   getting justice for Linda Lewis which has been covered up by the Welsh
   Labour Party and others in Public Office for many years.
   
   Here is the speech that Bethan was prevented from making by the corrupt
   and unaccountable Labour Party.
   
   Short debate
   
   Righting an historical wrong: the case of Linda Lewis
   
   Calls for a fresh inquiry into Linda Lewis, a mother falsely accused
   Wednesday, September 23, 2015
   
   Let me start this debate by making one point absolutely clear.
   
   This is NOT a child protection issue. It may have involved a child -
   now a woman. But she will be kept firmly out of this short debate, and
   will remain anonymous.
   
   No, this debate is about the mother, my constituent, Linda Lewis. This
   debate is about how she has endured a horrific, 17-year ordeal that no
   mother should go through, and how we - this country, Wales - owe it to
   her to rectify this wrong, and bring her the justice she deserves.
   
   To do anything else would shame this nation.
   
   As you can appreciate, this is a long case, and it begins back in 1998,
   when Linda's daughter came home from school, complaining of pains in
   her abdomen. She began vomiting and was admitted to Singleton Hospital
   for a week's stay.
   
   Doctors couldn't find a cause and she was discharged. But a few days
   afterwards, she was readmitted - this time to Neath hospital where,
   after a week of tests, doctors decided to remove the appendix, in spite
   of Linda's concerns that the pain was in a different place.
   
   If anything, this led to greater complications and a burst wound, which
   required weeks of dressings. During this time, she was prescribed huge
   amounts of drugs, of very high dosages.
   
   By this point, Linda was convinced the treatment her daughter was
   receiving was making her worse. She took her to the Royal Free Hospital
   in London and it was here that the family decided to fly her to America
   for a second opinion.
   
   Linda flew out with her daughter and father to Florida and were in the
   waiting room when American police officers burst in, pointed guns at
   her father and took the child away.
   
   A subsequent court hearing in Florida determined that a care order had
   been made in the UK, but here is where it all began to get a little
   strange. No one, to this day, appears to know who made that order.
   
   It certainly didn't come from Neath Port Talbot council. My colleague
   David Rees received a letter from David Michael, the local authority's
   head of legal services, in December 2013. In it, Mr Michael states: "I
   can confirm that the papers in my possession do not indicate that the
   county borough council applied for court orders in the United States of
   America".
   
   Linda's daughter was made the subject of a care order upon her return
   to the UK - a return journey effected without a passport, as she was
   included on Linda's. And yet it wasn't the council - the authority with
   direct responsibility for child welfare that initiated the request.
   
   It wasn't the Home Office. It wasn't the Foreign & Commonwealth Office.
   I know this, because I made Freedom of Information requests to both
   ministries.
   
   I also subsequently made the same request to the Attorney General's
   office. The Attorney General at the time was, if you remember, also
   Linda's Member of Parliament, John Morris. This FoI turned up similarly
   empty-handed.
   
   So here is the first reason why Linda deserves a full and independent
   inquiry. Nobody - nobody at all - can say who it was that initiated the
   repatriation request that sent two armed police officers to a hospital
   in Florida.
   
   What we do know is that a Neath Port Talbot social worker called Julie
   Rzeznicezek (pronounced Rez-na-check) arrived in the US with a court
   order from Swansea County Court, at which time Linda's daughter had
   already been made the subject of a care order in Orlando, and that the
   pair were able to return to the UK, using an emergency passport,
   following a ruling made by the Ninth Judicial Circuit in Orange County.
   
   Interestingly, when written to in 2001, that same court could not
   provide details of this "pick up order".
   
   But no one who subsequently had a hand in dealing with Linda's case is
   able to answer this one very basic question - who asked for the order?
   
   Even more disturbingly, if you can't answer the how, then it stops the
   really big question: why?
   
   Why was this child taken? And why was it so urgent that Neath Port
   Talbot council dispatched two social services officers to Florida to
   pick up the daughter from US authorities and bring her back to the UK?
   What set of circumstances dictated this immediate response?
   
   Now Linda Lewis is not a lawyer. Few of us are. Or a child welfare
   expert. She was not acquainted with the legal system, the courts,
   social services or anything that concerns itself with taking a child
   into care. Nonetheless, she returned to the UK and immediately
   initiated court proceedings in order to have her daughter returned to
   her.
   
     "Linda's Attorney in Florida had filed a writ of "Habeus Corpus"
      but it could not be enforced as her daughter had already been
      illegally removed (kidnapped ) from the United States without her
      knowledge or Linda's parental consent. Also evidence provided by
      Linda's Attorney confirms that a MINIMUM of 28 US laws were broken
      by Julie Rzezniczek and Allison Paisley the two Social Workers from
      NPTCBC while in the US."
   
   She failed, but undeterred she continued to pursue legal avenues. After
   some time, it became apparent to her that she was hitting a large,
   unidentified roadblock in her efforts.
   
   Then she was thunderstruck to learn from the Guardian Ad Litem report
   made to court in the UK that a social worker had visited Linda's home
   and had found a suicide note from the daughter. Furthermore, the note
   said her mother planned to take her away and murder her.
   
   In the first and in none of her subsequent court hearing had Linda or
   her solicitor heard mention of this evidence. This in itself is bad
   enough, as it denied her the chance to address this very serious issue
   - particularly as it appeared instrumental in the granting of the care
   order that took her daughter away.
   
   But even more incredibly, the social worker in question has denied, in
   writing, several times that she ever saw such a note. Yet its validity
   is still given credence, even though a judgement in 1998 recorded: "I
   do not find this is a case of Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy".
   
   Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy is, according to Wikipedia: "A behaviour
   pattern in which a caregiver fabricates, exaggerates, or induces mental
   or physical health problems in those who are in their care. With
   deception at its core, this behaviour is an elusive, potentially
   lethal, and frequently misunderstood form of child abuse or medical
   neglect."
   
   So the court cleared Linda of abusing her daughter. A letter in 1999
   from this Assembly to Linda said Neath Port Talbot social services'
   "long term plan ... is to return (your daughter) to your care".
   
   However, at this time, the authorities changed their tune and began to
   say that the daughter did not want to return home. This stands in stark
   contrast to her diary entries immediately following her being taken
   into care - seen by myself - in which she speaks frequently of missing
   her mother.
   
   Another feature of this case worth further consideration or
   investigation is the general intransigence of any authority here in
   Wales to deal conclusively with this issue. I should point out that
   this criticism is not directed at any court or decision, but rather at
   the local authority, the Welsh Government and its agencies.
   
   When I wrote to the First Minister recently to urge him to look again
   at this case, this was his reply:
   
     "The records indicate that in May 2000 an Inspector from the then
      Social Services Inspectorate Wales visited Neath Port Talbot Social
      Services Department to examine records in respect of its work with
      the child in question. This was to ascertain whether the records
      were generally consistent with what would be expected of a social
      services department in respect of work with a child who is looked
      after by the local authority. For example, that there is
      documentary evidence that statutory reviews take place and that
      appropriate people are consulted.  The Inspector's examination of
      the records confirmed this was the case."
   
   All this really tells us is that they were doing their job, not whether
   they made the right decision. It's a fine but important distinction.
   
   The inspector may not have inferred that there was any controversy over
   the authority's decision from its own records. After all, it was in
   dispute with Linda. This is perhaps reflected in the fact nothing
   appeared to be amiss, yet the discrepancies I have raised here are a
   matter of record.
   
   Furthermore, there has been some suggestion that the police should
   become involved. Linda has on a number of occasions approached the
   police, but evidence of criminal wrongdoing - what the police look for
   - and getting at the truth are two different things.
   
   And anyway, it is more usual these days for criminal proceedings to be
   triggered by allegations or findings made at public inquiries into
   historical wrongdoing. Furthermore, there are no injunctions or
   restrictions in place. I could have used the daughter's name all the
   way through this, but chose to respect her anonymity.
   
   Llywydd, Linda's case is well known across Wales. Hundreds, perhaps
   thousands of people share her disillusionment with the decision-making
   process, particularly when it touches on the things we hold more dear.
   We are committed in this institution to open and accountable
   governance, and we should never fear to shine lights in dark corners,
   even if we don't like the things that we find.
   
   We owe it to ourselves to hold a full and independent public inquiry
   into this case, because democracy must be seen to be at work. If we
   reply to the most basic questions with a litany of rules, protocol and
   techno-babble, we destroy the confidence in our democratic processes.
   
   But, most of all, we owe it to one citizen of Wales - to Linda Lewis,
   a mother falsely accused.
   
   End.
   
   So much for openess,honesty,transparancy and accountability within the
   Labour Party Welsh Government ! It doesn't exist. 
   
   Posted by Kevin Edwards at 11:28:00 2015-12-05
   Email kevinedwards@ntlworld.com  "

Best Regards,

Robert
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uk column news today had a interview with Kevin Edwards :